There are so many things we take for granted as Christians. We talk about the comfort we have in knowing that God is near us through Christ and the Spirit. Yet we have a tendency to overemphasize God’s nearness to the detriment of his transcendence. In the process we lose sight of the bigness and [...]
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The Mystery of the Trinity
“The idea of God, as the church fathers generally recognized, must be largely given over to mystery. Augustine said that we speak of the Trinity, not because we can explain this mystery, but only in order ‘not to be silent’ and allow greater error.” (41)
I found this statement by A.J. Conyers in A Basic Christian [...]
